Gang Policing Report
Who We Are
The Policing and Social Justice Project is a collaboration of faculty, students, and community based organizations that uses research and advocacy to produce safer and more just communities.
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Gang Policing and Gang Databases
An NYPD database labels over 18,000 people in New York City as active gang members, including hundreds of children. 99 percent of the people in the database are people of color.
What we do
Read more about our work, including the fight to dismantle the NYPD gang database.
“The Gang Database… I call it the Stop & Frisk 2.0, because it just evolved:
‘If we can’t stop these individuals every moment, we’re just going to create a database where we’re able to target the people that we can’t stop - and still see what they’re doing without them even knowing.’”
— Vidal Guzman, JLUSA, June 11 2018, The Intercept